The team boarded a plane by 6:39 am, Audrey had four members from her crew and then the shoe designers also had five with their team leader included. The flight from New York to Hong Kong was long, and by the time they plunged, they were all exhausted. They were escorted by the receptionist to the hotel rooms arranged for them as per the norms of the agreement. After Audrey realized that she had to share a room with Ashley made her heart boil, but her feet hurt so much after a long flight and all she needed at that moment was a nap. Carter had a meeting with the coordinators of the competition, alongside other prominent personnel in the fashion industry. After the meeting, he received a beep on his phone updating him about Audrey's arrival. It felt like the bottom of his heart was clutched at the thought of Audrey and he couldn't wait for the meeting to be finally over so he could set his eyes on his wife whom he missed all through the night. Hurrying to Audrey's hotel room after

The entire Colton team stood perplexed while others were getting inclined, Audrey left her phone in the hotel room last night before departing to attend a meeting, so there was no way they could get hold of her. Liam was left to attend to other business, lacking Carter on such a busy morning. Every other competitor was already set for the competition when Audrey rushed in, breathing heavily. “ Audrey!! Finally, you are here ”.“Where have you been? ”.“ Did you drink too much last night ”?“ Is this competition not relevant to you! ”. They all kept yelling questions as Audrey couldn't answer while her head was trying to be in one place at a time. “ Can you all stop!! ” She roared, not able to take it all in any longer. “ This is not the time to blame me, you will have all the time in the world to do that later, but for now, I need all hands on deck ”.“ Just tell us what you require us to do, and it shall be done ”. Tommy exclaimed. “ Tommy get all the fabrics ready at the podium,

The hotel receptionist brought in the meal they requested right there in the hotel room, where Carter had a miscellany of fabrics on the floor while training Audrey for the next round of the contest. “ I am sorry, this is all my fault, I should have prepared you sooner for this, and I left you to go out there alone thinking you could do it all by yourself ”.“ It is not your fault, I had so much confidence that I could do it ”.“ We still have a few hours before the competition, come on, last eat I exhausted most of my energy last night ”. A sly smile spread across his face as the event of last night kept reoccurring in his head. “ Are you going to keep talking about it? ” Audrey frowns. “ I am sorry, although I want to stop talking, last night was the best night of my life ”.For Audrey, it felt like the world stopped moving the moment he said those words, they were words she always dreamt of hearing from him, although she expected him to apologize like usual. “ Why are you stari

Audrey drifted away into the coldness of the street, she wasn't familiar with the environment, yet she ambled around the street hoping that the warm air and buzzing street would stop the ache she felt, but it didn't, Carter was so close to her, yet he seems so far away. Distracted from her thoughts, she bumped into a figure on the street, she apologized and continued walking. “ Audrey! ” The figure called, and it was right then she turned around to behold Oliver staring blankly at her. “ Oliver! What are you doing here?, I thought you left? ”.“ Because you lied to me doesn't mean I shouldn't cheer you to the end ”.“ Can we talk ”? Her voice was calm, although she knew that there were so many emotions playing in her head right now. “ Sure! We can eat while we talk, there is a street vendor down there that sells the best spicy fish balls ”. Oliver explained and walked ahead while she followed. “You seem to be familiar with the street, have you been here before? ”.“ Yes. My brot

“ Miss… Audrey!! ”. He screamed out her name with all his might and there was a roar among the crowd, yet Audrey wasn't sure that it was her name she just heard. “ And in second position, miss Loa Hai, please give it up for the three of them, they did an impeccable job and should always be valued in the fashion industry. ”.The organizers of the show stepped up to the stage, two men in their early sixties and a woman in her late forties, a warm smile filled their faces as the woman, Mrs. Clara kesh collected the microphone. “ Five years ago… ”. She began with a smile still sparkling on that red lips of hers. “ A young man by the name of Carter Colton won the ECO-FASHION, he was just starting up his company at that time, and I stood right here on this stage while presenting his award to him, I told him… ”.“ Sir, you will go places and will do extraordinary things with fabrics, and today he is regarded as a fashion Lord who has trained outstanding designers including our winner righ